Speaking of the budget deadlock on Capitol Hill, Rick Perry said, "We never would have gotten to this situation if I were president."
"I would have worked day in and day out. We would have a 20 percent flat tax and a 20 percent corporate rate," he said at Tuesday night's GOP debate.
Rick Santorum said a hyper-partisan and campaigning president "has poisoned the well in Congress."
Putting the supercommittee's task in perspective, Michele Bachmann noted that the panel was asked to cut spending by $1.2 trillion over 10 years.
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Mitt Romney's complaints about impending cuts in the defense budget were dismissed by Ron Paul at Tuesday night's GOP debate.
"They're not cutting anything out of anything," Paul said of congressional budget negotiations.
"They're nibbling away at baseline budgeting. People are going hysterical because spending isn't going up as fast as they want it to."
Michele Bachmann and Newt Gingrich, meantime, assailed President Obama for undermining U.S. security through ineffectual or nonexistent energy policies.
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Ron Paul dismissed the idea of a unilateral Israeli attack on Iran, and said the Jewish state does not need U.S. help.
"They can take care of themselves. Why do we have an automatic program to send our money to Israel?" the Texas congressman said at Tuesday night's GOP debate.
Rick Perry said he favors sanctions against the Iranian central bank to "shut down their economy" and deter that country's nuclear program.
Newt Gingrich called for the "defeat of the Iranian regime with a minimal use of force" before that country gets a nuclear weapon.
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Jon Huntsman's call for a drawdown of U.S. troops in Afghanistan drew a rebuke from Mitt Romney, who said, "This is not the time to cut and run."
Speaking at Tuesday night's GOP debate at Constitution Hall in Washington, D.C., Romney said a "precipitous pullout" could draw the Asian subcontinent "into terror."
Huntsman chided Romney for being overly solicitous to generals, reminding, "See what happened when the commander-in-chief listened to the generals in 1967."
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Michele Bachmann and Rick Perry disagreed on how America should deal with a shaky Pakistan in the global war on terror.
"Pakistan lies, but it also shares intelligence data on al-Qaida. We need to demand more," Bachmann said during Tuesday night's CNN debate in Washington, D.C.
Rick Perry said, "Until Pakistan shows they have America's best interest in mind, I would not send them one penny."
Bachmann called Perry's remarks "highly naive" and labeled Pakistan "too nuclear to fail."
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Rick Perry called for privatization of the TSA at home and improved intelligence-gathering capabilities abroad.
The Texas governor, during Tuesday's CNN debate on national security, criticized the Obama administration for degrading intelligence services.
Rick Santorum said profiling is needed. "Muslims are people you look ... and younger males," he said.
But Ron Paul condemned his fellow candidates for "careless use of words" in seeking to step up security.
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Saying "we will be in danger for the rest of our lives," Newt Gingrich on Tuesday supported an extension of Patriot Act provisions to fight terrorism.
Speaking at a CNN debate on national security at Constitution Hall in Washington, D.C., the former House speaker said, "Government should have many more tools."
Ron Paul countered Gingrich, saying, "We never have to give up liberty for security."
The Texas congressman likened the Patriot Act to "having a camera in every home to stop child beating and wife beating."
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State regulators Tuesday approved Progress Energy Florida's controversial request to collect $140 million from customers next year to cover costs related to the idled Crystal River nuclear plant.
The money will pay for what is known as "replacement power,'' which Progress has to get elsewhere while the Crystal River plant is shut down for massive repairs to a containment building.
Our frailties as a nation come in large part due to our penchant to seek to lop off the beauty of the tallest flower in the garden, often done by plucking one petal at a time.
